Always me with the wanting advice - thespian stylee

[RosieH]

So this time anyone know anything about staging a showcase for a thespian?

Helping my little brother out with putting on a showcase to which agents will be invited in the hope of their turning up and not thinking he's an acting retard and his maybe finding some work at long last, having just finished drama school.

He's very lovely and I'm led to believe talented (back off Impetuous!) and I would like to do him proud, in spite of not really knowing what I'm doing.

Anyone any experience of this kind of shenanigan, or top agent contacts that I can bribe to be there, or some kind of design software that I can borrow to cobble together an invitation / his headshot card thing, or knowledge of cheap printers where I could get said headshot card thing / invites printed? Or just want to come up to a theatre in Camden in early October to watch a one-man show?

[annaj]

Only just saw this before it slipped off the page; fast moving place the lounge.

I know nothing about anything that will help you, but I will most certainly come and see a one-man show in Camden.

[Huggers]

Get someone to film show to put together showreel. Send showreel to agents. Use facebook to invite as many people as poss to show including agents. Put clips from show/showreel on facebook. Set up a website ditto. Print business cards as they are easy to hand out and for recipients to hang on to. Pictures are much cheaper to get done now it is all digital. Get them done and pay to put one in Spotlight.

[PeckhamRose]

And register with CastingCallPro.

I gave an actor who had just left drama school his first role in my play a few years ago.

He auditioned with everyone else through CastingCallPro (Look'emup) and he's not been out of work since!

And join Player-Playwrights, a professional writer and actors group whose current Presidents are Marks and Gran (Birds of a Feather, the New Statements writers). Again, look them up. He can join that - we often have a paucity of younger males to read for us because they are more likely to get paid work and be unavailable! I may be the new casting director soon.

[RosieH]

Thanks guys, that's really helpful.

And Anna, you're on the list for a one-man show and a glass of whatever free alcohol I manage to lay my hands on.